The two images below were taken a month apart: The launch of Apollo 11 in mid July 1969 on its way to the moon with three astronauts. And this photo taken mid August 1969: Woodstock, August 1969. It’s hard to think of two events so close in time, and location, yet more distant in terms […]
The shooting star that was the Young, Restless Reformed crowd shone brightly as it burned. Brightly and all the quicker for it. And now with the likes of Mark Driscoll seemingly dumping all over Reformed Theology from his land of exile, and Josh Harris dumping his marriage, it certainly feels like what began with a […]
We’ve all heard over the past few years of the move among Nones to start something like church, with all the bells and whistles, talks and coffee, singing and platforms. Something like church but with one small variable – no Jesus. They began to meet in buildings across all the funky cities in the world […]
Phew!! Many an evangelical just let out a huge sigh of relief following yesterday’s definitive exposé of just how right-of-centre Israel Folau’s church group is. Izzy’s just been outed as totally non-kosher in the orthodox Christian world, so we can all get on with ignoring him. Many evangelicals have, no doubt, been praising Jesus (and the […]
Vinyl is back. Back in black. My daughter’s friends bought her a record player last year for her 17th birthday. Why? Because in case you hadn’t heard, vinyl is back. Those big black discs of polyvinyl chloride with one long continuous groove are selling like, er, hit records. Vinyl is back. In a way that […]
Tim Costello is dead right. We’re not being persecuted like Christians around the world and we need to suck it up. I’ve said that for a while now. We’re not getting the level of sheer violence and terror that Christians experience around the globe on a daily basis. But Tim Costello is dead wrong […]
Turns out we’re not going to live as long as we thought we would. Life expectancy in Australia is on the way down. Death expectancy on the other hand… The promise – nay the assertion – a few decades ago that we would soon all live happily and healthily to one hundred, is probably not […]
If only If only If only If only there were someone other than Izzy. Someone not like Izzy who was getting hounded out of his future employment for making a statement about his religious convictions. If only there were some no-name who wasn’t followed in Instagram by thousands, and who wasn’t on social media all […]
The Church tried to conform itself to the world at a moment when the world was becoming uglier. That sentence alone makes the conversation in Catholic journal First Things, between French author and atheist enfant terrible Michel Houellebecq, and Catholic conservative journalist Geoffrey Lejeune, worth the read. It sums up the failed strategy of a […]
The Israel Folau storm has exposed many things, and this is one of them: many ministry workers have little idea of the pressures people face in the modern workplace. They just don’t get it. Not that it stops them making big statements about it. If you’re a Christian ministry worker and you’ve had a lot to […]
